NEW: A Houston hospital is investigating whether a prominent surgeon altered a transplant list to make his own patients ineligible for care. A disproportionate number of them have died while waiting for new organs. nytimes.com/2024/04/11/us/…

I had the honor of writing about the life and legacy of Larry Young, who pioneered work on the biochemistry of social bonds, built bridges in the field and brought oxytocin research to the mainstream. My latest for The Transmitter:

The U.S. government spends billions of dollars a year on research projects — but few journalists monitor and report on research fraud and errors.

We’re hosting a webinar with The Journalist's Resource to help you get started.

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JOB ALERT! 🚨
AMNH Division of Anthropology is hiring TWO Biological Anthropology Collections Assistants to participate in human remains rehousing project.

Must have BA degree in relevant field and ability to respectfully work with human skeletons

careers.amnh.org/postings/4088

Larry Young, a neuroscientist known for illuminating oxytocin’s outsized role in social bonding, died of a heart attack last month at the age of 57.

By Angie Voyles Askham

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Our new paper looks into the strength and function of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur skulls using FEA 🦖🦃🖥️ 🚨Oviraptorid crania were much stronger than those of other beaked herbivorous theropods with distinct stress patterns doi.org/10.1038/s42003… Communications Biology #OpenAccess

News from us in JAMA 🎉🎉
We study pregnancy exposure to acetaminophen/paracetamol and risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability in 2.5 million Swedish children

Study: doi.org/10.1001/jama.2…
Press release: tinyurl.com/32yj98yb

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First, the company said it would de-extinct the woolly mammoth and Tasmanian tiger. Then it was the dodo. None of this sat quite right with Sabrina Imbler, so they wrote about it. For TON, they told Jonathan Lambert what went into their reported opinion feature. theopennotebook.com/2024/04/09/sab…

Go Tar Heels

New in Science: A vocal brain region is identified in bats and leveraged in comparative genomic analyses to reveal the evolution of mammalian vocal behavior. The results implicate networks of genes related to human autism.

Learn more: scim.ag/6vA #Zoonomia

Yesterday at 2pm the first honeybee (Apis mellifera) in this species’ evolutionary history managed to pull a string for reward. They are much harder to train than bumblebees, though!

Nobel Prize winner acknowledges errors in three more papers
The papers, published in the Journal of Neuroscience and Cell, were led by neuroscientist Thomas Südhof.
Shaena Montanari The Transmitter

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Breaking: It’s National Siamese Cat Day!

Standing by my phone hoping my friends and family remembered I majored in geology and text me to ask questions

The bird flu virus spreading through dairy cattle in the United States may be expanding its reach via milking equipment, the people doing the milking, or both, U.S. Department of Agriculture representatives reported today. scim.ag/6tY

My first Scientific American article is up! It's on my ticker-tape synesthesia! Spoken words automatically turn into written ones in my head. scientificamerican.com/article/my-syn…

Bats are, like humans, birds, and whales vocal-learners. A new study Science Magazine investigated genes associated with vocal-learning in 🦇.
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The honeybee’s signature waggle dance, discovered more than 75 years ago, communicates the distance to and direction of a food source to its fellow bees. But how do follower bees interpret the dance to track down their next meal?

By Shaena Montanari

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Bzz bzz. New work from Barbara Webb and Anna Hadjitofi at Edinburgh Robotics models a neural circuit honeybees might use to understand the waggle dance 🐝🐝🐝

M 7.4 - 18 km SSW of Hualien City, Taiwan

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